The New Motel

(Iris POV)

The next morning we're packing everything up to head to the new motel, it's been awfully quiet all morning...neither of us have said more then a few words. Steve told me it's about an hour away so we want to get there as soon as we can. I get on the back of the motorcycle and wrap my arms around him once he gets on in front of me...the only time I can really touch or hold him. God he feels so good...I get a whiff of the back of his neck...yep still smells like him!

The ride there felt so long but not long enough at the same time. When we finally make it to the new motel I don't want to let go! "Come on, let's head inside." I nod my head and he helps me off the motorcycle.

"This is bigger." I mention as we walk in, there is a nice lobby.

"Told you." He grins. "I'll check you in, just stay here." He instructs.

As I'm waiting I look over at Steve and I can overhear him talking to the desk clerk, "hey...aren't you..." He starts to ask, beginning to recognize Steve, I see the worry in his eyes. I have to think quickly!

I rush over there, "hey Honey, are you almost done?" I ask after running my fingers through his hair. "...I really want to get to our room...your taking forever...I have a surprise for you..." I seductively smirk at him as I also rub my body against his and then look at the desk clerk. "Sorry, it's our honeymoon...I'm a little impatient."

"Oh, congratulations." He says with a smile.

"We're all set, right?" I ask with pleading eyes.

"Absolutely, you are all set to go."

"Thank you...come on." I pull him by his arm.

"Have a good honeymoon."

"Oh, trust me...we will." Steve plays along. I giggle as he grabs my hip. We go into the elevator, "that...that was pretty good." Steve is a little flustered, it makes me blush a little bit. It was nice to get that reaction out of him.

"...I guess we make a good team." I smile back.

"...I guess we do...what made you think of that?" He asked.

"I don't know, it just popped in my head." He just grins at me.

We go into our room and it's a lot bigger then the other one, still only one bed though. He starts putting away our stuff. I lay on the bed to see how comfortable it is, it's a lot more comfortable then the last bed that's for sure.

"How are we affording this place?" I ask.

"I got some money from my informant."

"Is that what you went to do last night?"

"Yeah, that's part of the reason." He tells me. "So...you have everything you need..." He starts to say.

"...You have to leave already?" I sadly ask as I stand up.

"...Yeah."

"Okay...just be careful."

"I will...don't leave and always keep the door locked."

"...I won't...you don't know when you'll be back?"

"For now...no."

"What if something happens to you?"

"...Everything will be fine." He reassures me.

It didn't make me feel any better but I nod my head, "okay."

"I'll call, okay?"

"Alright."

"See you soon." I want to hug him but I don't.

He soon leaves and I'm left alone.

5 Days Later

Steve has called me a few times but I haven't seen him since he left, so far no luck with finding Ross. I decide to take a shower, I smell the shampoo and it's strawberry, this makes me smile because he got me my favorite smell! I begin to get out of the tub and as I am drying my body the door burst open.

"Iris?" Steve shouts out, I cover my breasts with the towel but my whole back is exposed to him, just a little peak of the top of my bum is showing.

"Steve! God, you scared the hell out of me." I put my hand over on my chest.

"Sorry." He sighs in relief.

"Your back." I just realized.

"Yeah...everything was a deadend so I decided there was no reason for you to be alone." He explains.

"Oh." I gently smile. "Are you okay?" I ask him.

"Yeah...I came back and you weren't in the room, I called out for you...I thought something happened to you."

"I'm fine, just taking a shower." I smile again, he was worried about me!

"I see that." He sighs as he looks up and down my body, I continue to dry myself and am not too worried about him seeing anything, my back is still very exposed. "Your not very shy, are you?"

"Not with you..." I softly smirk, "I mean, you've seen me naked several times."

"See...that doesn't sound like me...I'm..."

"A virgin?...you were a virgin." I finish his sentence.

"We really um...um..." He tries to ask getting nervous and shy.

"Sex? Yes." I answer him, he looks so cute with his face all red. I don't know why I'm deciding to be this forward and flirty with him. Before I was trying to be sensitive and be patient with him but at this moment I'm done doing that right now and besides this was the first time that he's asking about our sex life and I'm not going to let it go to waste and I'm not going to sugarcoat anything. "Many times." I look over my shoulder at him. "What? Did you think I was lying when I told you we were together for 3 years? About our first Christmas?" I turn completely around to face him.

"No not lying...it's just it's all hard to believe...especially this part...it doesn't sound like me." I notice him still looking down my body and exposed legs.

"Really? If that doesn't sound like you then why haven't you left the room yet?" I question him.

"What?"

"Well, the old Steve before we got together would have immediately apologized and shut the door right away." I tell him as I walk to him, it forces him to back himself up against the shut door, "but your still standing here...checking me out...in fact you've been checking me out since we left my apartment." I look up at him.

"I'm not checking you out." He blurts out as he clearly looks down my body with just his eyes.

"No?"

"No, not at all" He smiles and starts to flirt! "I just don't know who or what to believe anymore."

"Me...you were always able to trust me." I whisper as I look at him right in the eyes and put my hand on his heart.

After everything that's happened recently and how different he's been there's still this intense energy between us, which made this whole situation so much harder and frustrating, I know he feels it too but he's being so damn stubborn! He will look at me and it always brings me back to the first time we looked into each other's eyes...full of lust. He keeps looking down at my body and back up to my eyes, I give him a little flirty smile and he gives me one right back. He begins to reach for my hips and he leans in, I breathe heavy with anticipation, I am letting him take the lead and as our lips are about to touch he suddenly stops and pulls back, he points his finger at my chest.

"Where did you get those?" He asks, he's pointing to my scars on my chest, after all this time I still have scars from those guys. They weren't as noticeable as they use to be but I think they will always be there.

"...That's how we met...2 men attacked me and you saved me..." I answered softly, "you...you healed and took care of me, you said...you said I could trust you."

"Um excuse me, I need to get some air." He quickly blurts out, before I can say anything he leaves the bathroom and I hear him shut the front door.

I'm kicking myself, I knew I shouldn't have pushed him too hard! I completely overwhelmed him, I was never planning on going THIS forward with him and never intending to try to kiss him but he made it so difficult! Something happened to me when he looked at my body with full of lust with those piercing blue eyes and flirting with me with that beautiful smile, I could see the old Steve again and it pulled me to him, damn him! I have to be more careful before I completely push him away and ruin everything!

(Steve POV)

Steve had to get some air, everything was happening so fast. He wasn't expecting to stare at her as long as he did but she's so sexy and he's completely drawn to her! It was all so confusing because for him he had just lost Peggy 4 months ago and it was scary that he was having feelings for someone he didn't remember. When she first told him they were together and in love he didn't believe her, maybe he didn't want to. He didn't know if he should trust her, it was hard to trust anyone. The past 5 days that he's been gone he's thought of nothing but her and again that's terrifying him!

She has this strong pull on him that he can't shake...he was going to kiss her until he looked down and saw scars on her chest, he had suddenly gotten flashes of her chest being bloody and her being in pain, then flashes of him touching them sensually...kissing them like he was trying to make the pain go away and feeling...love...true love. He slunk down to the floor trying for the first time to remember but he couldn't remember anything else. He wanted nothing more to remember her now!

About 10 minutes later with no success he walks back inside, she was getting into the bed, "Sorry." He could only say.

"No, I'm sorry." She repeats softly.

"What are you sorry for?" He asks confused.

"I shouldn't be so forward...I shouldn't have overwhelmed you." She explains him.

"It's okay..." He replies, she smiles at him as he sits on the bed.

"No, it's not...yes I want you to remember more then anything but...not like that."

"Iris...it's okay..." He repeated, she gave him a cute reassuring smile that melted him.

She nods her head and they both lay down in the bed and put the covers over themselves. He wasn't as far away as he was before...he wanted to be closer to her. "Iris...I do want to remember you...I want to remember everything...I wish I did." He turns his head toward her.

She's speechless, he finally gave her the answer she had asked him before they left the other motel. Her eyes tear up a little, it was the first time she felt a little more hope.

"I know..." She's trying so hard to hold herself together. "Goodnight Steve." She whispers as she lightly touches his face, leans in and kisses his cheek right near his lips, her lips linger for a few more seconds.

He wants to bring her back but she made him freeze up and once he snapped out of it she had already gone back onto her side of the bed. She turns her body so she was laying on her side, him facing her back. He put his hand on his cheek where she had kissed him, her lips were so warm and so soft...he wants to feel that again.

He falls asleep and he is having that dream again, he hasn't had one of those since he's been with Iris. He again is following the same woman, wearing the same pale pink thin flowing skirt and white tanktop, trying to reach for her hand. This time though he notices that her back and hair looks familiar, it reminds him of Iris! This causes him to try harder then he ever has to reach her hand and get to her. "Wait!" He shouts.

"Steve, what about me?" Peggy asks in the distance. This time Steve doesn't even look back at Peggy, "Steve?"

He continues to hear behind him but he keeps going to reach for her hand and he finally does! He finally reaches her hand for the first time! He is relieved and she stops and turns around, "Iris?" He asks shocked that it actually really was her. She is smiling, she looks so beautiful.

"Remember me Steve...come back to me." She whispers holding his face gently with both hands. She leans in and kisses his lips and he kisses back. Suddenly his eyes shoot open, everything comes flashing back to him from waking up in 2011, the attack on New York and Sokovia, The Avengers and the past 3 years with Iris. He is at loss for words, still trying to get his head on straight, she has the biggest smile on her face, "you finally found me!" Her eyes tear up, he smiles back.

He jolts up from the bed, he is sweating and breathing heavy. He shoots up and goes into the bathroom and looks in the mirror. He remembers everything, just like in his dream. He was still processing but everything was starting to make sense, he hears someone quietly walk into the bathroom.

"Steve? Are you okay?" Iris quietly calls out.

"Iris!" He smiles.


Yes he remembers everything! It's about time, right?